Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh - Thi thử THPT năm học 2015-2016 lần 8 - Cấn Chính Trường (Có đáp án)

ĐỄ THI QUỐC GIA THEO CHUẨN CẤU TRÚC BỘ GIÁO DỤC (8)
Môn Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài 90 phút, không tính thời gian giao đề
I. PHẨN TRẮC NGHIỆM.
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
Question 1. A. worked 	B. caused 	C. forced 	D. stopped
Question 2. A. element 	B. dedicate 	C. event 	D. devote
Question 3. A. hats 	B. grapes 	C. chairs 	D. roofs
Choose the word which is different from the others in the position of the stress syllable
Question 4. A. explain 	B. involve 	C. purpose 	D. advise
Question 5. A. minority 	B. discriminate 	C. enthusiast 	D. admiration
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following questions.
Question 6. John, Fred and some other old friends are in a pub talking about their family and jobs.
John: "Do you work in an office, Fred?" ~ Fred: "............ "
A. Yes, I am. But I don't like it. 	B. Not anymore. I'm an English teacher now.
C. Yeah, but I'm out of work now. 	D. No, I work as a bank clerk.
Question 7. ........high school, Nam attended a university in the city centre.
A. Having been finished 	B. To have finished 	
C. Tofinish 	D. Having finished
Question 8. M inh........chess before, so I showed him what to do.
A. didn't play 	B. wasn't playing 	
C. hadn't played 	D. hadn't been playing
Question 9. It is reported that humans are the main reason for most species decline and habitat......
A. destroy 	B. destructive 	C. destructor 	D. destruction
Question 10. She built a high wall round her garden......
A. in order that her fruit not be stolen 	 B. to enable people not taking her fruit
C. so that her fruit would be stolen 	 D. to prevent her fruit from being stolen
Question 11. He had his car....... this morning.
A. repair 	B. to repair 	C. repaired 	D. repairing
Question 12. W e........won the game if we had had a few more minutes.
A. could have 	B. had 	C. will 	D. have
Question 13. In order to be a good salesperson, you should have good communication.....
A. skills 	B. things 	C. talent 	D. means
Question 14. I promise that the matter will.......
A. be taken care of 	B. taken care of 	C. be taken care 	D. take care
Question 15. I try to be friendly but it is hard to.......some of my colleagues.
A. get on with 	B. watch out for 	C. come up with D. stand in for
Question 16. I am bored with doing the.......chores.
A. household 	B. house 	C. housework 	D. homework
Question 17. Shop assistant: "..........."
 Customer: "Yes, I want to send some flowers to my wife in Italy." 
A. Do you like flowers 	B. What do you like 
C. Can you help me 	D. How can I help you
Question 18. ......, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Difficult as the homework was 	 B. Thanks to the difficult homework
C. As though the homework was difficult D. Despite the homework was difficult
Question 19. I.......for this book since a long time ago.
A. looked 	B. was looking 	C. is looking 	D. have been looking
Question 20. Be careful with your gun! You........wound somebody.
A. must 	B. need to 	C. ought to 	D. may
Question 21. "I couldn't take the history class I wanted last semester."
 "Why didn't you talk to your advisor? She..... able to help you get in."
A. might have been 	B. wasn't 	C. couldn't have been 	D. might be
Question 22. I was in two......about taking the flat because it is very good but the rent was rather high.
A. heads 	B. minds 	C. hands 	D.ways
Question 23. The box of disks for the computer........misplaced.
A. have 	B. have been 	C. has been 	D. has
Question 24. A keystone species is a species of plants or animals........absence has a major effect on an ecological system.
A. its 	B. that is 	C. whose	D. with its
Choose the answer which is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each questions below.
Question 25. He had never experienced such discourtesy towards the president as it occurred at the annual meeting in May.
A. encouragement 	B. measurement 	C. rudeness 	D. politeness
Question 26. Moving to a new town brought about many changes in his life.
A. resulted in 	B. speeded up 	C. resulted from 	D. prevented
Question 27. Childbearing is the women's most wonderful role.
A. bring up a child 	B. giving birth to a baby 	
C. having no child 	D. educating a child
Choose the answer which is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined words. 
Question 28. Fruit and vegetables grew in abundance on the island. The islanders even exported the surplus.
A. excess 	B. large quantity 	C. small quantity 	D. sufficiency
Question 29. Cancer is becoming one of the common diseases.
A. universal 	B. rare 	C. ordinary 	D. usual
Read the passage and choose the best answer to fill in each of the blanks.
 If you are (30).......in having a trip of a life time, but also doing something useful at the same time, then why not try joining a Greenforce expedition as a volunteer. Greenforce, which was (31)......in 1997, is an international research agency that gathers information about the wildlife and natural habitats in various parts of the world. There is a qualified biologists in (32)......of each team of volunteers and these carry surveys all year (33)......in some of the world's remotest and most beautiful places.
 Volunteers come from all walks of life. The minimum age is 18 years old, but there is no upper age (34)....... . No previous experience is necessary as Greenforce provides full training in animal identification and survey methods. You will need to be somebody who enjoys the outdoors life, however, as working in remote locations can be challenging. You will also need to be (35)........on wildlife ands prepared to learn a lot about the place (36)........you visit. Each expedition (37).......for ten weeks and training begins in the UK with a residential weekend where you can get taste of expedition life and (38)......up with some of your teammates as well as learning about basic survival skills. Each volunteer (39)......£2,500 towards the cost of the expedition, but past volunteers say it is worth every penny.
Question 30. A. interested 	B. determined	C. fascinated	D. decided
Question 31. A. got off	B. put on	C. brought about	D. set up
Question 32. A. guide	B. lead	C. charge	D. head
Question 33. A. away	B. round	C. forward	D. over
Question 34. A. deadline 	B. limit 	C. frontier 	D. point
Question 35. A. passionate 	B. keen 	C. attracted 	D. fond
Question 36. A. where 	B. when 	C. which 	D. what
Question 37. A. takes 	B. spends 	C. passes 	D. lasts
Question 38. A. know 	B. speak 	C. meet 	D. strike
Question 39. A. affords 	B. contributes 	C. combines 	D. agrees
Read the passage and choose the best answer to compete each of the statements that follow.
 The hippopotamus is the third largest land animal, smaller only than the elephant and the rhinoceros. Its name comes from two Greek words which mean "river horse". The long name of this animal is often shortened to the easier to handle term "hippo."
 The hippo has a natural affinity for the water. It does not float on top of the water; instead, it can easily walk along the bottom of a body of water. The hippo commonly remains underwater for three to five minutes and has been known to stay under for up to half an hour before coming up for air. In spite of its name, the hippo has relatively little in common with the horse and instead has a number of interesting similarities in common with the whale. When a hippo comes up after a stay at the bottom of a lake or river, it releases air through a blowhole, just like a whale. In addition, the hippo resembles the whale in that they both have thick layers of blubber for protection and they are almost completely hairless.
Question 40. The topic of this passage is........
A. The derivations of animal names. B. The largest land animal.
C. The characteristics of the hippo. D. The relation between the hippo and the whale.
Question 41. It can be inferred from the passage that the rhinoceros is.........
A. one of the two largest types of land animals. 	B. equal in size to the elephant.
C. a hybrid of the hippo and the elephant. 	D. smaller than the hippo.
Question 42. The possessive "Its" in line 2 refers to.......
A. hippopotamus' 	B. rhinoceros' 	C. horse's 	D. elephant's
Question 43. It can be inferred from the passage that the hippopotamus is commonly called a hippo because the word "hippo" is.......
A. easier for the animal to recognize. 	B. scientifically more accurate,
C. simpler to pronounce accurately. 	D. the original name.
Question 44. The word "float" in line 4 is closest in meaning to........
A. eat 	B. drift 	 C. sink 	D. flap
Question 45. According to the passage, what is the maximum time that hippos have been known to stay underwater........
A. thirty minutes 	B. three minutes C. five minutes 	D. ninety minutes
Question 46. The expression "has relatively little in common" could be best replaced by......
A. has few interactions 	B. shares few similarities,
C. is not normally found 	D. has minimal experience
Question 47. The passage States that one way in which a hippo is similar to a whale is that......
A. they are both named after horses. 	B. they both have blowholes.
C. they both breathe underwater. 	D. they both live on the bottoms of rivers.
Question 48. The word "blubber" in line 10 is closest in meaning to.........
A. fat 	B. metal 	C. water 	D. skin
Question 49. The last line states that the hippo does not........
A. have much hair 	B. like water
C. resemble the whale 	D. have a protective coating
Choose the part that needs correcting in each of the questions below.
Question 50. Nick (A) has been working (B) more harder since he (C) was (D) promoted.
Question 51. Williams not only (A) took three showers a day (B) and (C) washed his clothes (D) twice.
Question 52. My brother has (A) a French elegant clock (B) which he (C) considers his (D) property.
Question 53. We (A) should (B) have played (C) much better than (D) we do.
Question 54. He (A) is not able (B) to define the process in (C) which the body (D) is protect by the immunologic system.
Choose the option that best completes the sentence or best answer the question.
 Most Americans still get married at some point in their lives, but even that group is shrinking. Among current generations of adult American - starting with those born in 1920s - more than 90 percent have married or will marry at some point in their lives. However, based on recent patterns of marriage and mortality, demographers calculate that a growing share of the younger generations are postponing marriage for so long that an unprecedented number will never marry at all. More Americans are living together outside of marriage. Divorced and widowed people are waiting longer to remarry. An increasing number of single women are raising children. Put these trends together with our increasing life expectancy, and the result is inevitable. Americans are spending a record low proportion of their adult lives married. 
 Married rates for unmarried men and women have dropped from their post-1950s high to record lows. Part of this fall is due to the change in the age at which people first marry. The median age at first marriage is the age by which half the men or women who will ever marry have done so. It fell almost continuously from the time it was first measured, in 1890, at 22.0 years for women and 26.1 for men, to a low of 20.3 for women and 22.6 for men between 1947 and 1962. Since then, it has risen at a rapid pace, to a record high for 23.8 for women and 26.2 for men in 1994.
 The length of time between marriages is also increasing, and more divorced people are choosing not to remarry. In 1990, divorced men had waited an average of 3.8 years before remarrying, and divorced women had waited an average of 3.5 years, an increase of more than one year over the average interval in 1970.
 Data on cohabitation and unmarried childbearing suggest that marriage is becoming less relevant to Americans. 2.8 million of the nation's households are unmarried couples, and one-third of them are caring for children, according to the Census Bureau.
Question 55. The passage supports all of the following statements EXCEPT.........
A. Americans are spending fewer years married than they did in the past.
B. Most Americans get married at least once.
C. Americans are having fewer children than they did in the past.
D. Divorced Americans are waiting longer to marry.
Question 56. The word "those" in paragraph 1 refers to..........
A. married Americans 	B. younger generations 	C. adult Americans 	D. American men
Question 57. The word "unprecedented" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to..........
A. unbelievable 	B. impossible to count 	C. never before seen D. decreasing
Question 58. According to the passage, recent demographic patterns suggest that........
A. 90 percent of younger generations will marry.
B. young people prefer to marry in order to have children,
C. most young people delay marriage for personal reasons.
D. an increasing number of young people will never marry.
Question 59. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to paragraph 2?
A. Americans are spending less years in their adult lives married.
B. More Americans are living together without marrying.
C. It takes divorced and widowed people less years before they get married again than in the past.
D. There are more and more single mothers in America.
Question 60. Between 1890 and the 1950s, the age at which men first married........
A. decreased by more than 3 years. 	B. increased by almost 2 years,
C. remained about the same. 	D. decreased by less than 2 years.
Question 61. In paragraph 3, the author shows that the median age at first marriage........
A. reached a record high for women in the early 1960s.
B. fell continuously between 1947 and 1962.
C. rose then fell between 1890 and 1962.
D. rose between the 1960s and 1990s.
Question 62. The word "rapid" in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by........
A. predictable 	B. fast 	C. increasing 	D. unbelievable
Question 63. Which of the following is TRUE about divorced people in America?
A. More divorced people want to remarry.
B. Divorced people waited longer to remarry in the past than today.
C. Divorced women had waited longer before remarrying than divorced men.
D. Less divorced people want to remarry.
Question 64. The word "them" in the last paragraph refers to...... .
A. Americans 	B. unmarried couples 	C. divorced women 	D. single women
PHẦN TỰ LUẬN.
Part 1. Rewrite these sentences without changing the meaning.
Question 65. Although he was very tired, he managed tofinish the marathon race.
 In spite of...................................................................
Question 66. Thanks to Laura's support, I was able tofinish the project.
 Had it ........................................................................
Question 67. "It was very kind of you to drive me home. Thank you very much!" said 
 Laura to Joe.
 Laura thanked.............................................................
Question 68. It took him two hours to drive to London.
 He spent.....................................................................
Question 69. My mother is now a manager of a department store. Her first job was 
 filling shelves in a supermarket.
 My mother, ..............................................................
Part 2. In about 140 words, write a paragraph to answer the following question:
 "Should high school students wear uniform?"
ANSWER KEY
1B
9D
17D
25C
33B
41A
49A
57C
2D
10D
18A
26A
34B
42A
50B
58D
3C
11C
19D
27B
35B
43C
51B
59C
4C
12A
20D
28C
36C
44B
52A
60A
5D
13A
21A
29B
37D
45A
53D
61D
6B
14A
22B
30A
38C
46B
54D
62B
7D
15A
23C
31D
39B
47B
55C
63D
8C
16A
24C
32C
40C
48A
56C
64B
Question 65. In spite of being very tired, he managed tofinish the marathon race.
Question 66. Had it not been for Laura’s support, I wouldn’t have been able to
 finish / couldn’t have finished the project.
Question 67. Laura thanked Joe for driving her home.
Question 68. He spent two hours driving to London.
Question 69. My mother, whose first job was filling shelves in a super market, is now a 
 manager of a department store.
SAMPLE PARAGRAPH
 Many teenagers find that uniforms are boring and wish they could wear anything in their taste and style. As far as I am concerned, wearing uniforms should be advocated for the following reasons. First, it helps students to focus more on schoolwork; they need not waste time thinking about what to wear next or how to look better than their classmates. Second, their parents will not spend a lot of money buying fashionable or expensive clothes, which can save for other expenses. Third, wearing uniforms helps students to develop the sense of self-discipline, which is decidedly required in every office when they go to work later. Moreover, wearing uniforms helps them to avoid facing ridicule from others when they are unable to wear the latest styles. Last but not least, students should wear uniforms to comply with school rules and to have equality between each other. To sum up, students are well-advised to wear uniforms at school. [157 words]
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 Notes: “river horse = hà-mã (in Chinese: 河馬)
blubber /blʌb.ə r/ = the thick layer of fat under the skin of sea mammals, such a
 whales, that keeps them warm
whale’s blubber